Student Handbook - Moodle Book

PRIZES

The College awards prizes, normally to the value of £100, on the recommendation of Faculties, to final year students who show outstanding academic achievement.

In addition, the School awards annual prizes to one first year and one second year student with the best performances in each of Comparative Literature, Film Studies, French, German, Linguistics and Russian, and also to one second year with the best performance in Iberian and Latin American Studies. Prizes are also offered to one student with the best final year language performance in German and Russian, and the best overall final year performance in Comparative Literature, in Film Studies, in French and in Linguistics. In addition, the department of Iberian and Latin American Studies offers the following funded prizes:

            The Kate Elder Prize was founded by a benefaction in memory of a former student of the Department. It is awarded to the most distinguished academic performance by a first-year student studying Hispanic Studies as a main subject or in a joint degree programme.

            Lynn Ingamells Prize is funded in honour of Lynn Ingamells, former deputy head of the Department of Hispanic Studies. It is awarded to the most outstanding progression in Spanish through the degree by a final-year student studying Hispanic Studies as a main subject or in a joint degree programme.

            The Catalan Prize is awarded to the degree student with the most outstanding performance in Catalan Studies.

            The Portuguese Prize is awarded to the final year student with the best performance in Portuguese language across the degree.